Music (ABC RN)
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The Mulka Project
With a focus on training and employing Yolngu. 'The Mulka Project' is a multi-media production house aiming to enhance and preserve traditional cultural knowledge. Projects specific to north east Arnhem land include music videos, ceremonial events, language instruction, etc.
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Song of Arnhem Land: Rrawun Maymuru
Rrawun Maymuru stands on the shoulders of giants. The lead singer of East Journey - a nine-member band from north-east Arnhem Land - and already himself a father of six, Rrawun has been mentored by his uncle Mandawuy Yunupingu. As well as being a senior artist from Yirrkala, his great-grandfather Mungurrawuy was a plaintiff in the Gove land rights case and signed the first bark petition in 1963.
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Sugar in my bowl, sex in my food
In another century, in another country, there were ways to talk about sex that still got your songs played on the radio, as well as in the brothels and juke joints.
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Food in blues, permeate in milk, under a Tuscan sun
Note: RN First Bite is only available as streaming audio or a podcast this Saturday due to RN's coverage of the Sydney Writers' Festival.
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Music: Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe
A track from The Bravest Man In The Universe by Bobby Womack. This track is called 'Please forgive My Heart.'
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Putting Pianos Places
Monique DiMattina is a Melbourne based songstress who began a community radio segment where she would write a song in one hour with listener contributions.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Sam Amidon
A track from our album of the week, Bright Sunny South by Sam Amidon. This track is called 'My Old Friend.'
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Cellist Johannes Moser is turning heads
German Canadian cellist Johannes Moser is in Melbourne to perform at the Australian National Academy of Music.
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When John met Jennie
What would you do if you came face to face with your very first rock 'n roll crush decades later?
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Rayya Elias's Memoir of Hard Living
Harley Loco is the debut book by Syrian born author Rayya Elias. It's a raw memoir of life lived in the moment
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How a dead snake inspired country and eastern music
When New England instrument maker Peter Biffin found a dead eastern brown snake by his letterbox he knew he'd found the sound he was looking for.
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Metal Hymnal
In a post-Christian world, we should expect post-Christian music and that’s what Australian band Resonaxis is all about, with their new album Hymnarium bringing together gothic metal guitars, a church choir soprano and a massive pipe organ in a metal hymnal for a post-Christian faith. Taking us through their unique sound world is lead singer, songwriter and lover of Scandinavian gothic metal Brooke Shelley, composer and chorister at the Anglican church of St James King St in Sydney.
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Vieux Farka Touré Live at WOMADelaide
Despite growing up surrounded by music, Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Tourédefied his family's wishes to become a musician rather than a soldier. He eventually gained the approval of his father, the acclaimed guitarist Ali Farka Touré, and Ali's appearance on his son's debut album was the last recording he made before he died in 2006. Continuing his father's legacy, Vieux's versatile voice and command of acoustic and electric guitar allows him to move seamlessly from the deft,...
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Live music from Mustered Courage
Nu-bluegrass is their trade - a new twist to an Appalachian tradition. Mustered Courage have just released a new album, "Powerlines", and they're embarking on a national tour to launch it.
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Rayya Elias's Memoir of Hard Living
Harley Loco is the debut book by Syrian born author Rayya Elias. It's a raw memoir of life lived in the moment
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Music from our Album of the Week: Steve Martin & Edie...
A track from our album of the week, Love Has Come For You by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell. This track is called 'When You Get to Asheville.'
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Music from our Album of the Week: Steve Martin & Edie...
A track from our album of the week, Love Has Come For You by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell, this track is called 'Friend of Mine.'
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Vandemonians
In the Drawing Room tonight we travel to our southern most state to meet some of the first Europeans who came to its shores.
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Live music from Aaron Bolton
Aaron grew up in Grafton and moved to Tamworth to be a country singer.
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New vocal music with Australian Voices
Conductor Gordon Hamilton talks about his unusual choir The Australian Voices and their distinctive music.
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Music from Troy Cassar-Daley
Troy Cassar-Daley picked up four golden guitars at Tamworth Country Music Festival earlier this year including Male Artist of the Year and Album of the year. He visited the Bush Telegraph studio last year and performed 'Good Man' from his album, 'Home'.
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Monday Muse: Cambodian Space Project
Tonight on Monday Muse, we look at a band that is attempting to revive the Golden Age of Cambodian psychedelic rock.
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Sleep My Child
Lullabies from across the globe.
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Sinners and Saints: Benny Walker
Oscar Wilde once wrote that every saint has a past and every sinner a future. The new album from singer-songwriter Benny Walker Sinners and Saints has two sides, dark and light, and in this session Benny and his six-piece live band reprise the album in our Melbourne studios.
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Celebrating Percy- and his museum 75 years on
It's 75 years since the Grainger Museum opened in Melbourne. Australia's most famous composer's musical legacy is still tricky to evaluate but 'his' museum is a good place to start. From the Music Show archives Andrew Ford looks at some of the latest thinking about Percy Grainger against the backdrop of the recently refurbished museum.
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Chrissie Amphlett remembered
She was the voice of the Divinyls and a powerhouse performer who challenged the idea what a woman out front could do. From The Music Show archive, a 2006 interview with Chrissie Amphlett about the Divinyls, about dressing up and about Judy Garland. Chrissie Amphlett died on April 21, 2013.
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The very versatile David Hudson
His career is probably more diverse than any musician you can think of: he's been in films with Marlon Brando, toured with the Greek superstar Yanni, played with that other superstar Sting, opened a World Athletics Games, played in the Taj Mahal and the list goes on. At the heart of it is David Hudson, didjeridoo player and a Yalanji man.
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Music: They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants, music darlings of the 90's are in town for their biggest Australian tour.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Iron & Wine
A track from our album of the week, Ghost On Ghost by Iron & Wine. This track is called 'Singers And The Endless Song'.
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Drawing Room: Guitar talk
The Drawing Room gets into some pretty serious and nerdy guitar talk with two very different guitarists.
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Historyonics: PJ Harvey and Chunuk Bair
Historyonics this week looks at how the battle on the Gallipoli peninsula has been commemorated through music.
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Paul McDermott sings live in the studio
Paul McDermott is known for his razor sharp wit, his repartee and his singing.
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Chrissy Amphlett tribute
A tribute to lead singer of the Divinyls, Chrissy Amphlett, who died yesterday in New York, aged 53.
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Drawing Room: Jerry Hall
The Drawing Room was visited by probably it's most glamorous guest ever when Jerry Hall came to town recently.
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Vale Chrissy Amphlett
Chrissy Amphlett, the Queen of Aussie rock chicks has died today, surrounded by friends and family in a New York hospital.
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Bob Corbett takes music to Australia's country halls
Country musician Bob Corbett is following in the footsteps of Slim Dusty and taking his music into country halls across Australia.
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Life according to Bryte
The new release from Perth-based hip hop artist Bryte is less confronting than his debut and shows that as an artist he's having a bit more fun.
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Chris Latham and music at Gallipoli
Festival director, violinist and researcher Chris Latham is music director for the Gallipoli Symphony- a ten year, tri-nation commissioning project, which will premiere as part of the 100th Anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in 2015. On his way to Gallipoli 2013 he talks to Andrew Ford about his research so far. Chris Latham is also artistic director of the Canberra International Music Festival.
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Music of the Faroe Islands
Kristian Blak and Jakup Lutz play piano and violin and live on the Faroe Islands where no such musical instruments existed until the 1800's. The archipelago's musical life is inextricably linked to its geographical and trading history, plonked as it is right in the middle of the Norwegian Sea midway between Denmark and Greenland. These two musicians demo Faroese music and some Shetland Island tunes. The latter have become part of the musical traffic between these Scottish and Danish outposts.
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Thomas Ades
Thomas Ades is a composer, conductor and pianist. He’s one of the major musical figures of our time and when he was only 36 The Barbican in London presented a retrospective festival of his music. Ades is conducting some major pieces of 20th repertoire while in Australia including his own works. He uses beautiful analogies to describe his musical ideas without resorting to slogans. His ideas on Stravinsky in the centenary year of The Rite of Spring make interesting listening.
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Music: The Drones
The Drones have been described as one of the most celebrated Australian bands of their generation.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Renee Geyer
A track from our album of the week, Swing by Renee Geyer. This track is called 'It's a Man's World.'
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Drawing Room: Painting colour through music
Music can trigger all sorts of feelings, memories and imaginings, but can music be written to make a listener conjure a particular colour?
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Music from our Album of the Week: Renee Geyer
A track from our album of the week, Swing by Renee Geyer. This track is called 'I Wanna be Around.'
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Finger-pickin' good in Gippsland
The Strzelecki Stringbusters, old time and bluegrass band have a motto - make people smile through music.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Renee Gayer
A track from our album of the week, Swing By Renee Gayer, this track is called 'I Got Rhythm'.
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Monday Muse: The Rubens
The tale of The Rubens reads like a classic success story: three brothers and one of their good friends from a rural town in New South Wales start making music in their bedrooms after school. Then one of their songs finds its way to a Grammy Award-winning record producer in New York who flies them to America to make their debut album.
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Desert diva: Catherine Satour
Although she has been performing from a young age Catherine Satour has just released her debut solo album in her thirties. It's a fusion of desert rock and soul. And while you could say she is a chip off the old block Catherine's made her own way in the music business.
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Song competition winners announced
After weeks of eligibility and some fabulous entries we come to the pointy end of our Top Songs To Cook To competition in which you gave us up to five tracks to get the juices flowing in the kitchen.
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Vote for your meal - theatre restaurants
Despite a rather mixed reputation, theatre restaurants still flourish around the country, delivering food and entertainment on boats, in castles and amongst gravestones - and for one show, you can vote on dishes using social media.
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First Bite Sat 13 April 2013
It's all about time machines today. Our food stories take place 70 years apart - a theatre restaurant show takes us back to the 1980s and a Canberra chef breathes new life into a century-old menu from the official launch of Canberra in 1913.
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Drawing Room: speakeasy blues party
In the 1930s, after the big bands finished playing the big dance halls for the night, where did the party go?
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Historyonics: Kerouac's On the Road
Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road, with it's tales of road tripping, jazz and drugs, was one of the defining works of the Beat Generation.
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'Hobart Baroque' festival draws visitors to Tasmania
The first 'Hobart Baroque' festival will begin this Friday at the city's Georgian Theatre Royal.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Tosca
A track from our album of the week, Odeon by Tosca. This track is called 'What If'.
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Drawing Room: Pop is back!
Pop is no longer a dirty word in the world of uber-cool music hipsters.
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Monday Muse: Mama Kin
Tonight on Monday Muse, we look at an album that explores the place where magic lives.
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Album of the Week: Tosca - Odeon
The German duo, Tosca, have been together for more than a decade and a half. Odeon is their seventh album, although separately they have been involved in many other acts and made solo music during the existence of Tosca. This album stays true to the down-tempo feel that typifies their work, but it is sonically colourful. They put this down to the material for the album being debuted live in their hometown of Vienna, where, although often grey, they find it exciting and inspiring. The...
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Old and young united through music and choir
The Arts Health Institute has expanded its Sing Out Loud Together program, where students have the opportunity to become 'buddies' with an aged care resident and form a choir.
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Jai Uttal: Bhakti Beats
Jai Uttal is a world music pioneer and composer of sacred music who studied with the renowned sarod player Ali Akbar Khan before travelling to India in 1971 where he lived amongst the Bauls, the wandering mystical musicians of Bengal, discovered the practice of bhakti yoga, and met his guru, the Hindu holy man, Neem Karoli Baba. Returning to the US in the late 1970s, Jai Uttal started writing and recording devotional music based around the practice of bhakti yoga, mixing Sanskrit chant and...
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Drawing Room: Get your Kazoos on!
Ukulele orchestras are so last year. The latest trend for musical hipsters is the Kazoo.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Charles Bradley
A track from our album of the week, Love Bug Blues by Charles Bradley. This track is called 'Strictly Reserved for You'.
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Best of the Drawing Room: Healing through music
Swaziland's Possible Dreams International Choir emerged through a need to provide solace and dignity for people living with HIV/AIDS.
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Sacred Harp Singing
For more than 200 years an American style of folk hymn singing has been kept alive in the Deep South. Known as Sacred Harp singing, it’s a form of shape-note singing with folk tunes, revivalist hymns, odes and anthems sung out loud in a raw four-part harmony. The music takes its name from The Sacred Harp, a songbook of more than 500 hymns published in 1844 and updated continuously ever since. There are no harps in sacred harp singing, just voices and in this special Good Friday edition of...
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Music from our Album of the Week: Joseph Tawadros
A track from our album of the week, Chameleons Of The White Shadow by Joseph Tawadros. This track is called White Shadow.
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Frank Ifield interview
1960s singer Frank Ifield chats to Fran Kelly ahead of his performance and talk at Canberra's National Library of Australia as part of the National Folk Festival.
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Drawing Room: Preserving Musical Traditions
The Music Maker Relief Foundation is keeping alive musical traditions from America's South by helping out the musicians who make the music.
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Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading is one of the most celebrated musicians of her generation.
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Monday Muse: Melody Pool
Melody Pool's debut album The Hurting Scene is filled with quiet rage, but you wouldn't know it, unless you listened closely to her lyrics.
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Klezmer Pesach
Klezmer is an Eastern European roots music now popular around the world, that was developed by Orthodox Jews known as hasidim to evoke ecstatic communion with God. Nobody plays it quite like the London Klezmer Quartet who will join us for two live sets of klezmer songs specially themed for the Jewish festival of Pesach (Passover) which begins this week. We’ll also hear luminous choral music for Holy Week from superstar American composer Eric Whitacre, folk-soul from Michael Kiwanuka, and the...
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Music from our Album of the Week: Tooth & Nail
A track from our album of the week, Tooth & Nail, by Billy Bragg. This track is called 'No One Knows Nothing Anymore.'
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David Bowie tops music charts
David Bowie has shot straight to the top of the UK charts this week for the first time in 20 years.
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Tributes flow in Bon Scott birthplace
It turns out that the world's biggest AC/DC fans live a long way from Australia, in the tiny Scottish hamlet of Kirriemuir, where Ronald Belford 'Bon' Scott was born.
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Drawing Room: Healing through music
Swaziland's Possible Dreams International Choir emerged through a need to provide solace and dignity for people living with HIV/AIDS.
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Monday Muse: Brighter Later
For tonight's Monday Muse, we hear about a debut album that's been a long time in the making.
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Ruthie Foster- Let it Burn
Ruthie Foster's latest album is one of the most imaginative exploration of extant songs in recent years. In this live set Ruthie takes time out from her current Australian tour to play some of those songs just for us.
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Live music from Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier
A couple of weeks ago we featured the new album from singer-songwriter Deborah Conway and fellow musician Willy Zygier.
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Music from our Album of the Week: David Bowie
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Drawing Room: Banjo diplomacy
In the Drawing Room we discuss soft diplomacy and explore the differences between cultural exchange and cultural imperialism with a Mandarin-speaking banjo player from Nashville Tennessee.
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Historyonics: Airwaves by Loops and Topology
Tonight on Historyonics, we look at a musical project inspired from, and taking from, the history of radio.
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Bonnie Raitt at Byron Bay Bluesfest
Bonnie Raitt talks about her long career and 19th studio album, Slipstream, on the eve of her Australian tour as part of Byron Bay Bluesfest.
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Monday Muse: Zoe Keating
Zoe Keating is a one-woman orchestra, playing the seventeenth-century cello in an entirely modern way.
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Music Outback Foundation
There is strong evidence that music education can be a pathway to other forms of learning and with that in mind the Music Outback Foundation has been delivering workshops in remote communities in the Northern Territory, the far north of South Australia and western New South Wales. So far, the Music Outback Foundation has visited 30 communities covering an area over 350,000 square kilometres.
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Yakut trio Ayarkhaan
Ayarkhaan are from the Yakutia in Siberia. Founded in 2002 by Albina Degtyareva, this female trio plays the khomus [jews harp] and sings- though that description hardly does them justice! Their music simulates the sounds of animals, birds and the elements of their homeland in a unique musical experience.
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WOMADelaide with Robbie Buck
Radio National Inside Sleeve Presenter Robbie Buck previews this year's WOMADelaide Festival
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Drawing Room: World music and generation gaps
In the Drawing Room we explore why young people are offended by syllables; and get a taste for music played Egyptian-style.
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Drawing Room: Control freaks
In the Drawing Room tonight, we hear from a young blues musician who likes to do everything for himself.
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Monday Muse: Flume
Tonight on Monday Muse, we speak to a young electronic music producer who has garnered a great deal of attention since he released his self-titled debut at the end of last year.
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Colin Hay Australian Tour
Colin Hay was lead singer for Men at Work, famous for the hits "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under".
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Panting and Chanting
Margot Anand, the Sorbonne trained psychologist and Tantric teacher believes sacred sex is the foundation of a fulfilling spiritual life. Trained in Hindu and Buddhist Tantra, Anand has taught Tantric Sky Dancing for 25 years, to students as diverse as married couples and Jesuit priests. The aim is to experience the luminous state of orgasm, and learn to move that energy up the solar plexis into your heart and head. Deva Premal and Miten hold healing workshops of mantra chanting where...
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Music from our Album of the Week: Nick Cave & the Bad...
A track from our album of the week, Break The Sky Away by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. This track is called 'Mermaid.'
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Historyonics: Harry Belafonte and the Civil Rights...
In Historyonics, we head back to America in the early 1960s, an America deeply divided over race.
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Tracey Thorn: Bedsit Disco Queen
Hey, I know, let's form a band! The Marine Girls, Everything But the Girl, and the odd single with Massive Attack. This is Tracey Thorn's memoir about growing up and trying to be a pop star.
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American Folk music legend Arlo Guthrie
American folk legend Arlo Guthrie claims he was born with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the other.
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Music sales up after 14-year decline
For the first time in over a decade global music sales have increased.
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Bombay's jazz age
In the 1930s and '40s, the sophisticates of Bombay danced in art deco ballrooms to 'hot jazz', often performed by African American musicians. A new book traces the players and the music, from all over the world, to bring this part of Bombay's history back to life.
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Drawing Room: Etta James and love songs
In the Drawing Room tonight we discuss love songs—why there are so many of them—and Etta James: what makes her one of the best singers of all time?
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Music from Paul Kelly
Music today from a live recording at the Sonic Sessions in Perth last year. We heard Paul Kelly, Lucky Oceans and Alan Pigram with 'Rally Around the Drum'.
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Soundwaves of The Reef
The Reef is a collaborative project featuring live music performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra set against the backdrop of some stunning surfing and surfing photography filmed at Ningaloo Reef on the coastline of Western Australia.
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AOW track: Jubilee Street, Push The Sky Away
Push the Sky Away, our album of the week from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, has come in at number one in the Australian charts.
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Monday Muse: Chris Altmann
There have been so many Australian musicians playing Americana Roots influenced music of late, and so well that music bloggers in North America have been suggesting that we need a new genre called Australiana.
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Redfern Station
The term 'Aboriginal music' covers a range of genres and styles from hip hop to country and everything in between. Join us in the audience for an Awaye! live music special featuring the ethereal jazz of Jess Beck, the melodic folk-infused pop of Microwave Jenny and the driving, atmospheric rock of The Medics live at Redfern Station.
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AWAYE! - 2013-02-23
Redfern Station.
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A Bittersweet Symphony
When UK chef Heston Blumenthal serves seafood in his restaurant, patrons are given an mp3 player filled with the sounds of seagulls and waves. It’s one of their most popular dishes. The extraordinary influences music can have on our eating and drinking experiences, and the subliminal potential of neuromarketing in eateries and supermarkets.
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Martenitsa's Italian Journey
This outstanding 17 piece choir has been linked to Bulgarian vocal music for over 2 decades. Led by Mara Kiek they've sung folk music from Africa, the Balkans, Ireland and most recently Italy. Their new outing in CD and performance is called Tra Parole e Silenzio. Along with the band Mara! they perform a setting of Italian poetry written by the late human rights lawyer Edoardo Di Giovanni. Mara perform live ahead of concerts in Sydney and at Womadelaide.
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Adnaan Baraky- Syrian Oud
Syrian-born oud [lute] player and composer Adnaan Baraky now lives in Australia. He's exploring new ways forward for this ancient instrument and the east-west musical history it brings with it- and he plays some of it on The Music Show.
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Alister Spence: looping pianos for Todd Sampson
One our finest jazz pianists creates part of the score to a new theatre piece called I Love Todd Sampson opening in Sydney next week. But Alister Spence does much more besides with a constantly performing trio and swag of CD's to his name. He's investigating the loop as piano accompaniment on his latest CD Far Flung.
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Tuba Skinny
They evolved in the vibrant street music scene of New Orleans and they are touring Australia in Feb and March 2013. Tuba Skinny talk about the 'traditional' sounds of New Orleans- and play some of them just for us.
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Pussy Riot one year on
This week marks one year since members of the punk band Pussy Riot were arrested over a song they performed inside Moscow's main cathedral.
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Regional venues back live music push
When the music industry celebrates SLAM Day this year, the movement that began in the inner city will spread to regional towns across the country.
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Drawing Room: Sax, drugs and rock 'n roll
Youth, they say, is wasted on the young, but you cannot say that of Amy Dickson.
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Top Shelf: Angie Hart
Former lead singer of Frente!, Angie Hart, reveals the songs that have a high rotation on her playlist at the moment.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Mama Kin
A track from our album of the week, Magician's Daughter by Mama Kin. This track is called 'The River as She Runs.'
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Monday Muse: Mojo Juju
Mojo Juju is a pretty unique and striking figure in the Australian music scene.
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Woodford and the Quest for Meaning
Over its 27 year existence, the Woodford Folk Festival has established itself as the largest outdoor festival on the Australian cultural calendar. Martin Buzacott sets out to find just what people are searching for amidst the chaos and comedy of this unique, eccentric and Carnivalesque week of celebration.
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Drawing Room: Julia Stone
She's known for being part of a double act but recently she's been going it alone, touring and performing in churches around the country.
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Monday Muse: Tex Perkins
Tex Perkins joined RN Drive in the Drawing Room a while ago and now he is back as our Monday Muse to speak about his latest album, Everyone's Alone.
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Gotye strikes gold at the Grammys
It's been a memorable day for Australian music after Gotye, aka Wally De Backer, walked away from the Grammys with three awards. The only Australian musician ever to win more is Keith Urban.
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Composition, modernism and philosophy
A dialogue on music and philosophy after modernism
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The Borderlands of Belief
We celebrate Lunar New Year with music and prayer reflecting the ancient ritual basis to the occasion,from two related Asian cultures who share a common Buddhist heritage, China and Japan. In our main feature we explore the Japanese ritual of remembrance known as kuyo through the eyes of three young Japanese women and the haunting music of the Japanese zither, the koto. We also travel the silk road with a virtuoso of the 2000-year old Chinese lute or pipa, Wu Man, whose Borderlands project...
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Music from our Album of the Week: Stories of Ghosts
A track from our album of the week, Stories of Ghosts by Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier. This track is called 'Third Time Down.'
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Music from Julia Johnson
Julia Johnson is the lead singer of Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens who will be taking their 'Family Pets' tour on the road this February up and down the east coast.
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Monday Muse: Paul Kelly
Tonight one of Australia's best loved musicians, Paul Kelly, joined RN Drive to discuss the music that influenced his latest album, Spring and Fall.
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Music from Melody Pool (not in podcast)
Melody Pool returned from this year's Tamworth Country Music Festival as an artist to watch.
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Drawing Room: Dead Can Dance
They get no airplay, it's been 16 years between albums and 20 years since they last toured Australia, but they sold out gigs at the Sydney Opera House in lightning speed.
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Last of the Andrews Sisters dies
The Andrews Sisters were America's singing sweethearts, extolling the wholesome attitudes of the inter-war period in the United States.
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Historyonics: Brian Eno's Music for Airports
In Historyonics, RN Drive takes a look at the past through the prism of popular culture.
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Archie Roach is back
Archie Roach speaks with Daniel Browning about his return to creativity after a traumatic few years. After the sudden death of his partner in life and music Ruby Hunter, Archie suffered a paralysing stroke and had to learn to walk again. Then while in recovery he was diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery to remove part of his left lung, a singer's engine room. Yet Archie's new gospel and blues inspired album is a thing of joy and an act of perseverance.
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Conscious Music with Heather Frahn
One of the young pioneers of the Conscious Music Movement with her songs for wellbeing and positive social change, Heather Frahn has been compared to Tracy Chapman and India Arie.A multi-award winning singer-songwriter, with a powerful voice and a unique hybrid eight-string baritone guitar, Heather joins us for our concert series The Rhythm Sessions featuring acoustic versions of songs from her new album, Be The Change.
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Yorta Yorta Man: remembering Jimmy Little
We remember the life of Yorta Yorta man, Uncle Jimmy Little, who passed away last year after a long illness.
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The Medics: believe the hype
The Medics won't be pigeonholed but if they could be, their music might be described as 'atmospheric rock'. Their songs are Pink Floyd-style epics - wall of sound guitars overlaid with emotive vocals underscored by impassioned lyrics.
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Jimblah
Jimblah is an independent hip hop artist who self-produced his impressive debut album Face the Fire. And when he’s not writing, recording or mixing Jimblah mentors young people, teaching the universal language of hip hop.
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Introducing Thelma Plum
A folk singer-songwriter from Brisbane who cites her musical influences as Paul Kelly and Maryanne Faithfull, 18-year-old Thelma Plum is on the verge of a promising music career. We meet the next big thing and she performs two of her songs live and unaccompanied in our Brisbane studios.
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Microwave Jenny: in the house
WebringyoualivestudioconcertwithMicrowaveJenny,whoperformsongsofftheirnewEP'ChasingYou'. Theirsweet,uncomplicatedmusicishardtoresist. Brendon Boney and Tessa Nuku are a partnership in music and life and their songs are light-hearted and positive. Microwave Jenny's music is infectious, folk infused pop - but then it's hard to put them in a box.
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Drawing Room: Key of Sea
Throughout history, music has proved time and time again to be one of humanity's greatest unifying forces.
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Global Grooves: Kamuran Akkor
Tonight in Global Grooves, RN Drive heads to Istanbul to hunt for sought after funk and disco records....
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Drawing Room: Paul and Dan Kelly
Tonight in the Drawing Room, RN Drive is joined by Australian music royalty Paul and Dan Kelly to discuss Paul's latest album Spring and Fall.
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Drawing Room: the Eureka Stockade
We've got some unfinished business tonight in the Drawing Room -- an unfinished revolution.
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Monday Muse: The April Maze
Most musicians have probably dreamed of becoming an overnight success -- which is exactly what has happened to Melbourne duo The April Maze.
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Kimbra: she's 22 and just one her first ARIA for best...
Kimbra Johnson is signed to an international record label on the strength of her first album, and already going by a single moniker. She's a highly focussed performer and talker and Vows is slick and beautifully produced pop. Here's a grab from her original interview broadcast in September 2011.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Madness
A track from our album of the week, Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da by Madness. This track is called 'La Luna.'
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Indigenous constitutional recognition: Mick Gooda
The ARIA awards were held last night, and Yothu Yindi were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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Drawing Room: Archie Roach
Tonight in the Drawing Room we're joined by Archie Roach who, by all accounts, has had a pretty tough life.
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On the red carpet at the Aria Awards
The red carpet has been rolled out in Sydney tonight for biggest names in the Australian music industry -- it's the 26th annual ARIA Awards.
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Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir: Outpost project
Over the past couple of decades, Sydney's Gay & Lesbian Choir has provided anyone -- gay or straight -- with the opportunity to counter homophobia by singing with the choir.
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Global Grooves: Seun Kuti
Tonight in Global Grooves, we journey to Nigeria to hear from Seun Kuti, son of legendary afro-beat pioneer Fela Kuti.
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Tjapukai retire
The internationally renowned Tjapukai Aboriginal Dance Troupe has played a pivotal role in the development of cultural tourism in Australia.
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Australian Music Month: Archie Roach
Archie talks about a Black Armband concert performed on the banks of River Thames, where friend and actor the late Pete Postlethwaite introduced the concert with a his own welcome to country, based on the ceremonies he’d been part of while travelling Australia with Archie. The track is 'Nyul Nyul Girl'.
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Monday Muse: Lisa Miller
Lisa Miller is one of this country's most critically acclaimed singer songwriters.
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Australian Music Month: Jean Kittson
It’s a long way from Sunbury 1973 to Opera in the Vineyards at Wyndham Estate in the Hunter Valley, where this piece was recorded.
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The MERRg
The MERRg are one of those bands who get together to make music when it feels right. Most of them hail from Ceduna on the far west coast of South Australia - but their particular brand of desert rock is infused with rhythms from the Torres Strait and the Koonibba rock tradition laid down by their rellos Coloured Stone's Bunna Lawrie and Bart Willoughby from No Fixed Address. The MERRg has just released a new album Just Sign Here Folks and in this program they perform a mix of new and old...
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AWAYE! - 2012-11-24
The MERRg.
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Missy Higgins: Giving 'em The Ol' Razzle Dazzle
Missy Higgins speaks about her new album and her hiatus from the music industry
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A view from the end of the world
Friday 21 December is the last day of RN Drive, it might also be the end of the world.
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Music from Bex (AKA Rubt Boots)
WA singer songwriter Bex (AKA Ruby Boots) has just returned from Nashville where she recorded her latest single Kellie Anne. She came into the Bush Telegraph studios and performed the new track live and we also heard 'Devil'.
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Top Shelf: Stephen Garrett
UK Film and TV producer Stephen Garrett chooses his top five cultural picks.
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Music from our Album of the Week: Kerri Simpson
A track from our album of the week, From Melbourne based blues singer Kerri Simpson
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WOMADelaide lineup announced
Every March for the past 20 years, Adelaide has hosted the WOMADelaide festival.
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Global Grooves: Officina Zoe
Tonight in Global Grooves, we head to the south of Italy to hear from Italian band Officine Zoe.
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Playlist for trauma recovery
Music can play an important role in helping the recovery of those who have experienced trauma, particularly young people.
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Australian Music Month: Fred Watson
Popular astronomer Fred Watson has dabbled in classical music.
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Monday Muse: Alpine
In Monday Muse, we speak to a musician about one of their key musical influences. Phoebe Baker is from the Melbourne band Alpine.
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Ausmusic Month: Chris McAuliffe
Chris McAuliffe recalls a memorable gig featuring the 'Holy Trinity of Australian post-punk' and 'Big Jesus Trash Can' by the Birthday Party.
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Australian Music Month: Urthboy
Urthboy's Ausmusic moment is 'For The Kings' by Adelaide MC, Delta.
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Lyndon Terracini
Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini shares his love of Nessun Dorma.
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Mia Dyson Moment
Her heroes are Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks, and Bruce Springsteen and she carries a bit of them all in her music.
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The future of the music industry
What is the future of recorded music in Australia? How are independent artists placed when it comes to building a career in this time of change?
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Live music in the studio: The Pierces
The Pierces' debut album was released 12 years ago and despite some success, they were considering packing up their guitars for good until they were cold called by Coldplay.
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Drawing Room: Pacific Break
The Pacific Break scours the Pacific each year to find the best unsigned musicians, giving them the opportunity to have their original music heard.
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Music from our Album of the Week: I Awake
A track from our album of the week, I Awake by Sarah Blasko. This track is called 'Illusionary Light'.
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Global Grooves: Juri's Kim
Despite the recent international interest in K-pop, traditional Korean music is enjoying a resurgence in youth culture.
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Fat Swan: An Adults-only Panto
Remember Natalie Portman in Black Swan? Well, this isn't it.
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Belgian bugle players to play in Canberra
A decade after the end of World War One the residents of Ypres, a small town in Belgium, built a memorial to the commonwealth soldiers with no known grave.
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Music from our Album of the Week: I Awake
A track from our album of the week, I Awake by Sarah Blasko. This is the album's title track, 'I Awake.'
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Lily Brett and Lola Bensky
Lily Brett discusses her new novel Lola Bensky. She explains why Lola is haunted by false eyelashes, the stories of rock stars and parades of the dead.
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Australian Music Month: Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson compares four versions of an old favourite, Wild One.
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The Law Report's Damien Carrick: India
Papers with James Carleton. New book follows cricketers on and off the pitch. Sport: Warwick Hadfield. Iemma and Rees to give evidence at ICAC inquiry. Headlines with James Carleton. Royal commission: Peter Fox. Finance with Justine Parker. AM with Tony Eastley. Papers update with James Carleton. Royal commission: Joel Fitzgibbon. Politics with Michelle Grattan. Royal commission: Patricia Feenan. Australian Music Month: Ross Wilson. Sport: Warwick Hadfield. Hale-Bopp comet discoverer here...
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Monday Muse: Bertie Blackman
After Bertie Blackman's 2009 album Secrets and Lies, which won two ARIA awards, fans were waiting with baited breath for her next album. They had to wait three years, but the result is worth it.
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Poetry in melody: Sue Ray
Sue Ray was exposed to music at an early age and now she sings alternative country tinged with roots and blues. The title track off her 2011 album Red Roses won best Indigenous song at the Queensland Music Awards this year and she was a finalist in the Australian Independent Record (AIR) Awards for best country album. So how does a girl from Toowoomba wind up singing 'Americana' in Nashville?
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Chase the sun: Benny Walker
Benny Walker is a singer-songwriter from Echuca but on his father's side his family hails from Cummeragunja, which has a long musical tradition that includes The Sapphires and the late Jimmy Little.
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Sandy Evans
Sandy Evans talks about a memorable performance in India with the Australian Art Orchestra.
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Australian Music Month: Jim Denley
Jim chooses a defining moment in concert going at a live performance of The Necks.
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Australian Music Month: Tom Ballard
Tom Ballard's picks are Darren Hanlon’s 'I wish that I was Beautiful for You' and Flume with the track 'Sleepless Feat Anthony for Cleopatra'.
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Australian Music Month: Jill Wran
Jill Wran's music choice is New Gondwana by Stephen Leek, Sung by Gondwana Voices.
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Australian Music Month: Riley Lee
His special musical memory is when he played on the sails of the Sydney Opera House at sunrise in the first performance of Dawn Mantras (also known as Breath of the Spirit) by Ross Edwards.
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Australian Music Month: Karin Schaupp
Karen shares the experience of recording the first guitar concerto written for her by composer Philip Bracanin.
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Australian Music Month: PJ Hogan
Film director PJ Hogan loves the Divinyls' 'I Touch Myself'.
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Australian Music Month: Julie Rigg
Julie demonstrates her detailed knowledge of Australian music as she shares her quest for the perfect version of 'Flame Trees'. We hear three variations as well as the original Cold Chisel hit.
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Australian Music Month: David Cafe
David Cafe recalls the Ausmusic output of Paradise Recording Studios, Sydney, and some of the best gigs. His selection include 'I’ll be Around', Doug Parkinson, 'Cheap Wine', Cold Chisel, 'We Can Get Together' Flowers (Icehouse) and 'Love and Other Bruises' by Air Supply.
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Australian Music Month: Bunna Lawrie
Bunna shares his story about their most famous song, 'Black Boy', released in 1984.
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Australian Music Month: Glen A Baker
Glen A Baker shares the story of his travels in 2000 with Yothu Yindi when they celebrated East Timor's freedom with a concert in Dili on the first anniversary of that emerging nation's vote for independence.
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Music from Lily and King
Lily and King perform two tracks live in the Bush Tele studios. We hear 'Mermaid's Last Chord' and 'Drinking Song' from their new CD 'Medication'
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Australian Music Month: Peter Garrett
Richard Clapton’s 'Deepwater' resonates as an Ausmusic moment for Peter Garrett.
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Australian Music Month: Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson compares four versions of an old favourite, Wild One.
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Dave Stewart
Musician Dave Stewart, well known for his time as one half of the Eurythmics, has a new album out called The Ringmaster General.
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Australian Music Month: Keri Phillips
Keri celebrates the late 70s pub rock scene and singles out 'Who Listens to the Radio' by the Sports.
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Australian Music Month: Tim Ritchie
Delving into his rich store of musical knowledge from the popular to the arcane, Tim has chosen Tael of a Saeghors from post punk band, The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast.
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Australian Music Month: Rodney Fisher
Rodney Fisher is eloquent about the experience and the wonderful versatility of Meow Meow (pictured).
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Australian Music Month: Phillip Adams
An admirer of wit and irony in music, Phillip chooses a piece you might well recognise, Russian Rag by Elena Kats-Chernin.
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